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The Seaforth News, 1943-08-12, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943 T C MIXING B011111, or sy ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist -- �-•�= •=` MEALS FOR TWO ACTIVE PEOPLE Hello Homemakers! It's been grand to hear from so 'many brides.' To -day's brides, many of them busy war workers, have not had time to assist in meal planning or to learn the deft art of speedily. concocting a meal—which means a "quick turn" for good directions. Whether "he" knows you are a wonderful little cook or has always thought you. could master the art easily, he ex- pects (or hopes for) marvellous meals once you are in your own home. A word of advice on the matter of breakfasts — keep them simple so you can carry them off with speed and finesse. The most delectable muf- fin is not worth keeping friend hus- band late. Plan them in the light of the other meals of the day and the egLipmsnt and time available. You'll both need a good breakfast — there's no quicker and surer way to pull down vitality and rouse the wrath of your mother-in-law than to neglect the first meal of the day. Suggested Breakfast Fruit or °fruit 'juice — orange Juice, tomato juice, sectioned half grapefruit, chilled applesauce or fruits in season; cereal—hot or prepared; eggs or fish—eggs are more easily digested if poached, scrambled or soft cooked (re- serve fried eggs chiefly for those who do heavier work), fish may be cut in pieces and poached in milk; toast—crisp with soft but- ter; coffee—make a mark on per- colator or glass coffee -maker to show amount of water to be used and always measure coffee. We'll suppose that you both lunch at an industrial cafeteria and give you cheap, quick dinner suggestions. Hamburg Roast Chop fine 1 pound of stead, cut from the top of the round, and 2 •or 3 ounces of suet. A small slice of green or red pepper and % slice onion may be chopped with the meat or a teaspoon of onion juice may be added after the meat is chopped. Add a scant half -teaspoon of salt, the beaten yolk of an egg and r/g, cup of soft, sifted bread crumbs that have been soaked in cold water and wrung dry in a bit of cheesecloth. With the hand, • mix all the ingredients to- gether very thoroughly. Care must be taken to mix the fat and bread evenly through the meat. Press the whole into a compact roll of equal thickness throughout, Roast in a moderately hot oven (375°) about 50- 60 minutes, Serve with brown gravy. To make Gravy: Pour off fat, leav- ing 2 tbs. in pan. Add 2tbs. flour and stir and cook until frothy; then add 1 cup of tomato puree, beef broth or cold water, or a mixture of these, and stir and cook until boiling.' Harvard Beets 6 beets, 34 tsp. salt, 3.8 cup sugar, 1S. tb. cornstarch, 35 cup vinegar, 2 tbs. meat dripping. Peel and slice beets;' cook 20 min- utes in small amount of water. Mix salt, sugar and cornstarch, add to vinegar and boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly, Add 2 tbs. meat dripping. Pour over beets. Crumb Pastry 1% cups graham - cracker crumbs. (about 16 crackers), rolled very fine; 1 tb, sugar, 1/4 cup butter, browned but not burned, or use softened butter. Mix erumbss and sugar, add browned butter and mix well. Press firmly over bottom and sides of pie plate. Bake in electric oven 325° about 10 minutes. Use with cooked fillings. Makes, 1 pastry shell. Crumbled ginger snaps, vanilla cookies, chocolate cookies or zwei- back may be substituted for graham crackers, if desired. * * * THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. B.T. says: Have noticed the hot water bottle is hardening, Answer: Wash in water to which a little baking soda is added. Dip in and dry off about every month. Mrs. C. M. asks: How to remove dark scorch on good linen ? Answer: Boil the following to- gether: 2 onions, minced, 1 tb, chop- ped soap, 2 oz. Fuller's earth (drug store) and 1 cup vinegar. Apply paste and let dry for 3 hours. J. C. says: Soda crackers always soften in bread box. Answer: Soda biscuits should be left in paper package in a dry place, not in airtight container or with moist foods. Crisp by putting in warm oven. Chicks And Pullets , Need Plenty of Room In view of the increase in the numbers of poultry, the problem caused by overcrowding is greater than, ever. On this subject, the Do- minion Department of Agriculture states that it is generally known what hapliens to baby chicks when they pile up in a corner—they suffo- cate and die. The same thing happens to a certain degree to growing pul- lets when ample ]rousing and hoost- ing space is not provided. They may not actually die, but when they are in the centre of the pile tonight and on the outside tomorrow night, it leaves them weak, anaemic and fit specimens for the ravages of any epidemic that may come along. Overcrowding of growing pullets means lower egg production and high- er death rate next winter. A colony house that was big enough for 300 or 400 baby chicks is not big enough fol• the same number of half-grown birds. Range shelters are ideal to supple- ment colony house accommodation. Marketing_ cockerels early makes more room for the pullets. Plan now to save bird power in 1944, °slIEaI1 How theBaby has Grown Just 25 years ago, when air mail began in Canada with a flight made by Capt. Brian Peck, between Montreal and Toronto, the total load was 124 letters, Today, Trans -Canada Air Lines carries nearly half a million letters in one days In five years, T C. A. planes carried more than five and a halt million pounds of mail, which, at the Post Office estimate al fifty letters to the pea 1, works out to more than 275,000,000 letters, Women do much the cargo handling, replacing men on active service. _ y THE SHAFORTH A,vi:A.Yx1 New Arrny Reception Centre At London All recruits for the Canadian A.r ing the nearly one thousand miles trim around the parliament buildings from Edmonton to Prince Rupert here. I enquired and found there are through a wild country. He found the about forty acres of grass to be gold all right --but in lumber, pion- looked after, and it keeps a number xny in Military District No, 1 hence- cored and prospered. of men working continually day af- forth will through the new ; ter day. I was surprised to see the. forth will passAsmy Reception Centre This is Ottawa! The other day a absence of dandelions, so pestifer- stre in operation at No. 1 District huge tank. with its long barrelled ons in some parts of Canada. The Depot, Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario. The new Centre is one of eleven being set up this year in as many military districts across Canada, for stop at the red light. Nobody seem- square feet of lawn. No other place the purpose of securing higher effic• ed to pay the slightest attention to this monster of war, cannon peinting straight ahead at Central Experimental Farm here the traffic, its treads clanking loud- says a pretty effective treatment for ly, rumbled along the pavement in them is spraying the infested area front of the Parliament buildings. with long-time burning oil at the Incongruous . . , but it had to rate of 5 gallons per one thousand ieney in the medical examination, classifying and documenting of army recruits, A staff of medical special- ists will now apply their skill in de- termining a recruit's fitness to serve down on further permits for storage in the army. of eggs until later in the year they As a result of this centralized me- tell me is primarily to stop specula- thod of army enlistment, with the tive profits in storing and handling best available medical skill and the of eggs. You know Canada has a big finest X-ray and other equipment, job ahead of it this year, The produc- 'officials are confident that more sat- tion objective for 1943, according to isfactory results will be obtained • the Agricultural Supplies Board, is than under the old system of medical to provide 345 million dozen eggs. examination by local three-man Think of that, an increase of 26 per boards scattered across the district. cent over 1942 and 41 per cent over Under that system recruits were too 1941. For domestic consumption often passed who later had to be dis-they figure over 282 million dozen; charged or have their category low- a reserve of 11 million, Munitions ered. Mistakes are more costly than and Supply estimates it will need the extra travelling involved in the over 7 million and the United I{ing- new plan, state senior officers at dom's need will probably be about M.D.H.Q. ; 63 million dozen. That's cackling for Coincident with introduction of victory in a big way. the Army Reception Center, the new * * * Pulhems system of classifying re- The three armed services want to cruits has been adopted to ensure get closer to the folks in the coun- that a man will be assigned to a job try, whose boys and girls are part in the army for which he is physic- and parcel of it. In this connection I ally and mentally fitted. It replaces attended a conference last week with the traditional army medical categor- Director -in -Chief, Public Relations, aes A,B, C D , which E will now dis me Ar d F J W G Clark G The Prices Board order clamping does one see more beautiful swards of grass and such magnificent trees as in Ottawa. Odds and ends of the recent Ses- sion : The war finance bill which set up a jackpot of $8,890,000,000 for war purposes passed quickly, but Parliament was eoneerned with it on forty-four days of the session, so it wasn't given a once-over lightly , • largest single item in the supplem- entary estimates was $27,816,000 for wheat reduction acreage bonus and administration of it, as against $4; 265,000 last year ... there was a reduction of 4 million acres seeded to wheat in the three prairie prov- inces, but that's all covered by in- creases in oats, barley and flax seed, one of the final debates be- fore the curtain rang down was a bill which increased old , age pen- sions by $5 a month and under cer- tain circumstances also allowed $125 outside income without deduction, A quick glance for folks "out there" on the new order stopping purchase of used tires and tubes without a permit, Rural school tea - appear. M. Brown (RCAF), acid H. C. How- tioneers can get them; a new ruling Moreover, the new assembly line and (Navy) in respect to weekly pa- allows a farmer to procure same for system of receiving recruits will pers, a passenger car even if he has a greatly speed up the process of en -I • * * * truck. Provision is made for certain listment. For example, the recruit In my rounds I also inquired about dentists, optometrists who operate previously had to go to a hospital for publication of the Sicilian campaign branches; also for those employed in his X-ray examination and perhaps casualty lists, but find this can't be breed associations engaged in the to a civilian heart specialist for a done for some time yet for security control or direction of producing or check-up. These things took time, reasons. While one part of the Can - upset the routine of enlistment and adian army is still in one sector, like frequently resulted in disappearance 'Sicily, such publication would give of recruits in the process. Now the the enemy a fine chance to gauge .mileage in transporting produce or entire procedure is housed under losses, determine disposition, etc. supplies to and from the farm, and one roof. Where it required three or However, when a paper has satisfied 'who own no truck. The order is to four days, sometimes a week to pass itself next-of-kin has been notified, it conserve dwindling stocks of 'new a rcruit, the average time today is may refer to an individual. Another tires in Canada. 36 hours. Soon it will be reduced to interesting thing I was told is that' 24 hours. This means that in a single official cameramen have been taking day a recruit will come into the re- shots of the action in Sicily, these ception room as a civilian and walk are sent to London, then to the Na - out of the quartermaster's stores in tional Film Board in Ottawa. The a uniform, providing he has passed people of Canada will be given the all the required tests. opportunity of seeing them through The Reception Centre at No. 1 news reels in their local theatres. District Depot has been operating in +k e * high gear since its inception on July You who groan over the mower 1st. During the month of July a to- on your little lawn at home ought to tel of 1,927 young men passed see what the men have to keep in through, an average of about 75 a day. Both volunteer recruits and men called up under the N.R.M.A. are examined at the Reception Cen- tre. Thelatter go there for re-exam- ination after being passed by their civilian doctors. Provision is also be- ing made for taking care of mem- bers of the CWAC in the near fut- ure. The Pulhems system now in use at the centre is a story in itself. Briefly, the recruit is classified und- er the seven letters of the Irord P for physique; U for upper limbs and rispiratory system; L for lower limbs; II for hearing; E for eyesight, M for mentality; and S for emotion- al stability. A recruit who is mark- ed 1 for each of these seven depart- ments is fit for front line combatant duty. If he scores 2 in one or more categories, he may be still useful for accessory combatant duty; a 3 will bring him back to duty on lines of communication; a 4 means that he must be content to serve on the home front; a 5 in any classification renders him unfit .for army service. The Pulhems profile thus serves to give the Centre officials a true pic- ture of the man's physical and men- tal abilities, thus to place him in the niche of army servicefor which he is best fitted. Not only will it elimin- ate a los, d of men for Canadian or overseas duty resulting from the previous system of generalized med- ical grading, but it will facilitate the work of personell selection officers. marketing foods and farm products. A redefined status for those who use passenger cars for 75 per cent of Weekly Editor Looks At Ottawa By Jim Greenblat, Many of us get funny notions about members of Parliament. Sure they make speeches, but after watch- ing them in action here for a while I guesS they're just working men like you and me. For instance the other day I was talking with Olaf Hansen, member for Skeena (B.C.) He told me he had lost 14 pounds during the Session. The stocky, grey haired son of the Vikings still talks with a ,de lightfttl Scandinavian accent. iris home port for many years was Prince Rupert, that booming, pulsa- ting war baby become adult. Mr. Hansen in 1007 went after the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, walk- * * * Why is the government pushing production of oil bearing seeds? To keep the Canadian boys punching over there. Four pounds of the low- ly sunflower seed produce a pound of oil; a bushel of flax yields about 18 pounds of oil, while soy beans give about 8 pounds per bushel. * * e Had a letter saying: "Give us a little news for women." So I took a stroll down to the Consumers branch of the Wartime Prices Board and said "How about it'?" ' Got .talking about the rural women in relation to price controland rationing, Found that representation of rural women in. Consumer branch committees is taken seriously. For instance when it came to granting extra rations for temporary farm help, their wishes were really considered. ,Arrange- ments have been made for farm wo- men to obtain extra rations, when- ever they serve twelve meals or more. To further ease their prob- lems of meal planning, rural resi- dents owning their own herds are granted special privileges under meat and butter ration. Turkey Raisers Must Rely On . Home :grown Feeds The past spring has been wet and cold and therefore not ideal for tur- key raising, states. A. G. Taylor, Poul- try Division, Dominion Experimental Farms Service. Hatches have not been too good and with unfavorable weather conditions the number of turkey poults may be somewhat low- er than normal. The month of June was wet and this would mean that turkey poults in the eounry would have to be pretty well confined to houses. The 1943 hatching season has been somewhat extended and the later hatched poults may make up part of the loss sustained by poor hatches and impaired development title to bad weather. Because protein concentrates are difficult to secure on the feed market, the farmer or turkey raiser must look for a home-grown product to supply this deficiency. Good alfalfa or clover range will make up for considerable of this protein shortage. Another homegrown product which can be used, if avilable, is skim milk or but- ter milk. If judicious use is made of these two available sources of pro- tein while the poults are young, so as to get them a fairly good start, the half-grown turkey can be put on a lower protein diet and still make economical gains. It is most import- ant that turkey poults be given a good alfalfa or clover range as early in life as possible. When the first crop of clover is harvested the turkey poults will consume considerable of th second growth crop and the younger the clover is the better it is for the young turkeys, If insect life is plentiful on the turkey range, it is a good source of protein, Turkeys grow well when grasshoppers are plentiful, but allowing turkeys to range over large areas in search of insect life as their main source of food supply is a questionable proposition. Tugs Go to Sea by Rail WHEN ships go down to the sea by rail a difficult transportation problem is involved. A record in rail transport has been set by operating officers of the Canadian National Railways in the recent successful movement of two large tugs, built far inland, to the seaboard. "Ward" and "Watch," terms as- sociated with security and guardian- ship, are the names of these tugs. They were transferred from their • native element in Georgian Bay waters over the lines of the National System to an East Coast seaport where they are now engaged in war work. These 60 -foot overall tugs were built at Owen Sound, given their trials there, taken from the water and swung on board fiat cars to begin a railway journey of more than 1,300 utiles. That sounds simple but a tug cannot be knocked down or folded up, particularly in this instance where the steel hulls are welded. Height and breadth of the hull provided material for a lot of operat- ing headaches which lasted from Owen Sound to the Atlantic, Placed on her side on a flatcar the top of the load was 18 feet, 9 inches above the top of the rail. The actual beam of the tug is 14 feet 6 inches so that when loaded on the ear the hull projected two feet beyond the car edge on one side, the awkward posi- tion being due to the necessity for establishing a safe centre of gravity. Overhang constitutes a problem on any part of a railway and particularly so at curves. It was necessary for the National System engineering depart- ment to check the plan of every bridge between the terminal points, a big task when carried out over '- 1,300 miles. Some clearances were of the scantiest, the smallest being barely one inch from the top of the load at a point wkere a highway crossed over the railway. The side overhang was a bigger problem than the height and it was necessary to arrange for every train in which this load was included to move• at restricted speed when the second track was vacant. The entire transportation involved a series of carefully planned movements. The transportation was carried out successfully and "Ward" and "Watch" are now in salt water performing their tasks of moving barges in the Canadian National lighterage service which daily handles great quantities of supplies and war material taken from the rail terminal and transferred to ships carrying vital cargoes for the United Nations.